Shirley (Wordsworth Classics)

Shirley (Wordsworth Classics)

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte BrontÃ« vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of
a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life
symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention.
Country USA
Brand Wordsworth Editions
Manufacturer Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781853260643
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781853260643
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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